THE ILLINOIS FAKMEE. 



September 



Illinois river trade goes to Chicago, but 

 the great arteries are the railroads, that 

 gather up these products at a thousand 

 stations. 



SHIPMENTS OF FLOUR AND GRAIN FOR 26 TEARS. 



The following Table shows the shipment of all 

 kinds of grain from Chicago, for the past twenty- 

 six years: 



TEAR. 



1838. • • • 



1839 



1840 



1841 



1842 



1843 ... 



1844 



1845 



1846 



1847.... 



1848 



1849 



1850 



1851 



1852 



1853 



1854 



1855 



1856 



1867.... 



1858 



1869 



1860 



1861 



1862 



1863-4.. 



Barley, Bushels. 



Total, Bushels. 



78 



3.678 



19.000 



40.000 



586.907 



688.907 



923.494 



1.024.620 



1.699.619 



2.243.201 



3.001.740 



2.769.111 



1.830.938 



4.646.291 



6.873.141 



6.412.181 



12.932 320 



16.633 700 



21.583 221 



18.032 678 



20.035.166 



16.753.795 



31.108.759 



60.481.862 



56 484.110 



64.741.839 



The last line represents shipments from April 1, 

 1863, to April 1,1864. 



Previous to '49 the receipts were all 

 by teams, and these filled the streets so 

 completely that it was often difficult 

 to pass through them. 

 "We have often waited four or five hours 

 for one team to unload, and then had 

 often to weigh on platform scales, car- 

 ry the sacks of grain into the ware- 

 house and empty in a large bin ; rath- 

 er a wide contrast to the present system 

 of unloading a train of grain cars at the 

 present day. 



We will suppose this grain to reach 

 the city in teams, each carrying forty 

 bushels and occupying two rods ; there 

 would be a- daily procession of teams 

 twenty-eight and a half miles long, and 

 at two miles an hour would require 14 

 hours to pass any given point. Put the 

 whole in one annual processions, and 

 they would reach 8,550 miles. 



1^0 such amount of grain could be 

 sent to market by teams, the feat is im- 



